US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on March 31 for "Encoding and decoding of acoustic environment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,240, issued on March 31, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Encoding and decoding of acoustic environment" was invented by Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany) and Florin Ghido (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are disclosed apparatus and methods for encoding and decoding of acoustic environment. In accordance with an example, there is provided an apparatus for decoding an acoustic environment, the acoustic environment including at least one audio source and at least one audio object, the at least one audio object being represented by a structural-acousti...